THEATREWORKS Artistic Director, Murray Ross will be on hand to discuss the creation of the original adaptation of Peter Pan. Eggnog and discussion with Murray before our holiday show.
We love this story, and so does everybody else, and we are going to retell the whole thing on our stage all over again, and very faithfully too. The only difference, and we think you’ll agree it is a minor one, is that our story will not begin in a London townhouse but in a senior assisted living center somewhere near here. We believe that is it not just young boys who never grow up, or middle aged boys who develop a syndrome, but old boys too, who are just as lost, just as young at heart, and even more likely to live in Never Land.
I know this from looking at many of the old boys around me, and also from looking in the mirror. We are also fearless, foolish, ardent in the pursuit of justice, and even more certain, as Peter is, that dying will be “an awfully big adventure.” We’d like the chance to play with mermaids, Indians, fairies and we are still ready to take on the pirates. I’m very certain you will relish the chance to fly out the window with Peter, Wendy and a bunch of very lost boys.
The Lost Boys is a retelling of Peter Pan, by James M. Barrie--the script is an edited version of Barrie's famous novel, but the play is set in a veteran's assisted living center--so all the lost boys in Neverland are rather old.
While Peter Pan is a classic story for all ages, we recommend this production particularly to grown-ups and children eight years or older.